I really gotta say.... this God's clay retreat is something i will NEVER forget! honestly, i wasn't actually expecting much from this retreat at first.. i was thinking, our grp has actually grown so far oready... ever since we were formed in 2003 when YM first started... and eve since last yr retreat ubnder chin ee... i felt that... what else can we move on too? We manange to fulfill our vision in making our grp more united.... so is there anything more??? All this thoughts actually came to me before this retreat.
The day started with vyan visiting my school for the first time...and i intro him some of the SUPER GOOD food for breakfast in the DESIGN CANTEEN!!!! Did a mini tour for him in the design school before we headed to pasir ris COSTA SANDS!!! We started our retreat with a pot luck at some hut near the beach... and surprisingly,this is the BEST pot luck we ever had! We had so much FOOOD! normally our potlucks are like a failure... but really have to thank Englee for contributing so much food. We then played our "traditional Polar bear game!" This time.. moooonie really improved a lot!
We then check in to the resort... and played some games first... vyan and i was playing the "vampire chac game"... and we are getting goood at it man!!! Next was our first discussion session! And the discussion and reflection of what God's clay is today was very real and open! I started of the sharing by saying how our grp has grown closer to each other ever since the last retreat till now... and it was really good reflecting on the past yr. God has really bless our grp so much! We then when in to some really serious discussion of what our grp really need for the yr 2007... although i totally agree that normal sunday small grp time is really not effective... Feli brought up a Very good point which i feel that as a mature grp now... we should CHALLENGE ourselves for a more in depth Bible study and grow more spiritually as well. And so this is one of the main focus our grp can move to for the yr 2007! And i didnt even think of it, if not for Feli bringing that up... Our other grp members also then opened up with real honesty, and it really brought this time of sharing even further and deeper...and i really feel this is what a small grp sld have.
Later we went to the beach... had some really cool God's clay carvings in the sand... and had a really cool dinner by the beach! We ordered pizzas as well as a lot of the left overs from lunch. And as usual, we cldnt finish all those foood.... so we played this game... "I NEVER...." and bcoz of this game... we somehow finished almost the entire meal layed infront of us...but we were super bloated up by then! We then had a MASS DANCEEEEEE trial! the girls taught us the mass dance for the upcoming ym camp... so vyan,josh and me was like learning the guy role for the dance at the camp and we are like then suppose to show the rest! I tink! arghhh! And the guy role was actually quite girly at first..because the entire Choreography was done by our very own God's clay dance girls! Well... did abit of twitching here and there... but only manage to cover verse one...oh welll mass dances really remind me of CJC orientation! sighhh....
After this had another great time of worship lead by Feli, ben tan and josh. And we den carried on with our discussion and sharing for our grp... Englee then ask us to really take 30 mins of a real SILENT RETREAT... just to focused on God and to hear what he have to say to us... so vyan,justin and me then went out near the beach of some solitude.... during this period... i really cld sense that God's presence was really in our midst... i felt so at ease during that time... and i really didnt want the time of solitude to end...i actually felt i was kinda restricted by the time... but it was a very good time of sharing betweent the 3 of us when we gathered back... we then headed back to the chalet... and each of u shared our experience in that time of SILENCE! And the girls all shared abt how each of them could really feel that God was in their midst and that there was like this PEACE of mind among them, the fear of spiritual warfare we talked abt earlier subside and each of them was sharing how they like literally saw a "glow" in their faces... and like there's this undescridable JOY in that room suddenly! And cherie shared how she came into that room after her dance recital... and she immediately felt this strong presence of God there that made her cry. When hearing their sharing.... it actually touch my heart that i almost cry.. But i didnt ah! But that was how touch i was internally... imagine seeing what God's grace has done for our grp over these years made me just in AWE for our ALMIGHTY LORD!!!!
Ww then had a mini birthday bash, and i actually wanted to continue that time of silent retreat and not to play any other games. So some of us headed to the beach at like 2 am oready in the morning... i actually wanted to go there for some solitude..but in the end didnt really do it... so as i layed back at those breakwaters rocks... gazing at those stars in the sky! SUDDENLY MOONIE SHOUTED! SHOOTING STAR!!!!!! And Ben tan was next to me and said...I SAW IT TOO! And i was like!!! WHAT!!! I was staring in the sky but i MISSED IT!!! ARGHHHHHHHH! Everybody there saw it except meee!!!!! Whats the odds of seeing one!!!! welll.... after that... with just some of us left... we all just gathered real close to each other sort of like a circle and started just talking and sharing random stuff as well as ome realllllly DEEEP AND PERSONAL stuff! The HIGHLIGHT of this time was VYAN TANG WAS LIKE FARTING ALMOST EVERY 10 mins the entire nite! And i really mean that much almount of times he farted!!! Its like a NEW RECORD or something... never knew one cld FART THAT much!!! Well...in the end we spend the entire nite or rather morning awake.... talking and talking with just real honesty... its just like we felt so opened and comfortable suddenly with each other we cld share stuff even what we normally would not share to somebody of the opposite sex. Well... we cldnt see the sun rise, bcoz the beach was facing the wrong side!so sad... but well by the time we headed back to the chalet it was like 7 am oready... and we were like so FREEZING outside the entire nite we just went to the mattress and KNOCKED OUT! Abt 2 hrs later we woke up and just had a closing session of pray and sharing. After that some of us headed to white sands mall and played POLAR BEAR again very lunch...and on the looong journey back on bus 58, i manage to hold a really goood conversation with Ben tan just reflecting on the retreat and sharing abt stuff..and then!!! THE BUS 58 CRASHED! Into the side of the road... and it stopped at the next bus stop! And we had this free complimetary ride after that... but its like so conincidence this the second crash in bus i seen in this week..first was bus 23 on monday which i was suppose to take, but this time the bus i was in crash. oh welll... what an eventful day!!!
(vyan at my school..at my dustbin design,its
now use as a dustbin for our studios)
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